Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

fore Florida advertises an ice palace
Richmond Dispatch.
"A herder drove two thousand six
hundred sheep into a corral sc Tie
Siding. Wy. T., and, after banking the
fire in an adjacent cabin, went to sleep.
A spark flew into the straw of the
sheds, and while the herder slept the
corral and all the sheep were destroyed
by fire.
The Prescott ca. T.) Miner has the
following: lis this reservoir water
healthy?" asked a newcomer of an old
dassayamper. "Do you see that mule,
stranger?" Eyes, sir.'' ''Wen, ten
months ago that mule was jack rab-
bit, and drinking this water made him
what he is to-day"
The use OF nickel-plateo cooking
vessels has been forbidden by Govern
llent order in Lower Austria. 1t is
stated, as the reason for this action,
that vinegar and other acid substances
| dissolve nickel; and that this, in pOr-
tons OF One-seventh of grain, causes
| vomiting, and is even more poisonous
| than copper.
In recent lecture before a Lon
don institution DIR. B. w. Richardson
stated that the work of the heart In a
healthy man is equivalent to the feat of
raising five and one-fifth tons one. foot
per hour, or one hundred and twenty-S
five tons IN twenty-four hours The
use of eight ounces of alcohol causes
the hearts work to show an excess o.
twenty-four fOot-tons.
For biliousness the editor of the
Boston Medical and Surgical JourndL
says a plain diet of bread, milk. oaS-
meal, vegetables and fruit, with lean
meat and fresh fish, is best. Exercise
in the open air The victim of an acute
attack will be righted by % abstinence,
(2) porridge and milk, (3) toast, little
meat and fish and ripe fruit, thus conn
ing to solid food gradually.
The Gazette of Heppner, Ore, wss.
not behind ds esteemed contemporariess
i'll getting special Christmas numbers
and has this allusion to it: The,
Christmas edition of the Gazette is this
year printed in two colors, black and
white, and She occasional lampblsck
spots are skillfully secured by the devil
getting on toS' much ink and falling to
sufficiently agitate his roller"
"A substance resembling celluloiG
may be made from potatoes by peeling
them, and, after soaking in water, i'm
ORIGINATING witheight parts of sulphuric
acid, then drying and pressing between
sheets Of blOtting paper In France
pipes are made'Of this substance scarce
ly distinguishniie from meerschaum.
BY subJecting the mass to great pres
sure a substance. can be made of it rival
ing ivory in hardness.-BoSto1 BuGqet.
-Erastus Wiman, who is a baseball
manager as well as man of extensive
business interests, says that at least
s., 100000 is spent yearly in baseball
in this country. This Is further evil
dence of the fact that Americans never =
do any thing Ivy halves But is not this
thing overdone? 1t would seem so
when salaries for good players range as
high as $1,000. 1t is becoming BUSH
ness rather than II SPORTY Y.
Tribune.
Manager (tD, suTeTnumerary)-U
am going to give you small part inc
the new play; do you wish your real
name on the BILL. or Will you use an,
assumed name? Supe-I guess l will
use an assumed name. M.-Very good;
what shall it, be-? S@Sig. Vermicelll.
understanding name; why
10 you use Xermicellia Got it out iofia
,ook book. did YOU'D S.-Yes, andi IL
Use it because Lam a slape, youlznow-
Boston Courier.
Hosea Il: Perkins L. man who, ae- .
,ording to the New York Times. always
wants to make IA '-DanieI Webster chow
Ter" from. the receipt he obtained from
he illust1ious statesman whenever he is
If on III pleasure party. On board de
yacht one. day lie requested TO lie al
owed to- go, into the galley and COM
pound the chOwder- He was introduced
o the chef and went 10 work witt hinis
The chef, however, Did not think highly
# the receipt and observed. Your
Monsieur Webster could write a Giczion-
ire but he could not make zz chow
Iersr.'
"A Chicago merchant decided TO sur
rise his wife ON Christmas by present.
ng. her with a twenty-thousaId-do
'Olioy on his life; but he neglected to-
pply for the policy until the day be-
are Christmas Then he WAS told thaE
he applinatiO0 and the repsrt of tie
MEDICAL examiner would sbe sent to tbs
Jew York office, and the p4licy would
ONE back In few days. This woulde't
%. The merchant suggested telegraph
NC. The medical exam;ner was sent
or, has reTOrt and the application we're
elegnaphed to this city, and in less
han, six hours from the Sime of 1ppli-
alton th0 report was accepted ins New
{ Ek aud the policy received in Chica-
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